Torrey pine
Rare pine species in California, United States.
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Santa Rosa Island (California)
Second largest of the Channel Islands of California at 53,195 acres (215.27 km2 or 83.118 sq mi).
Santa Rosa Island is home to the rare Torrey Pine, a species of pine tree that exists only in two locations around the world.
Pine nut
Pine nuts, also called piñón, pinoli , pignoli or chilgoza , are the edible seeds of pines (family Pinaceae, genus Pinus).
The other eight pinyon species are used to a small extent, as are gray pine (Pinus sabineana), Coulter pine (Pinus coulteri), Torrey pine (Pinus torreyana), sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana) and Parry pinyon (Pinus quadrifolia).
Del Mar, California
Beach town in San Diego County, California, located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean.
Del Mar is one of only two locations where the Torrey Pine tree naturally occurs.
Coastal sage scrub
Low scrubland plant community of the California coastal sage and chaparral subecoregion, found in coastal California and northwestern coastal Baja California.
The endangered Torrey pine (Pinus torreyana) is the dominant tree at Torrey Pines State Reserve in San Diego, one of only two known stands of this pine species.
Channel Islands (California)
Eight-island archipelago located within the Southern California Bight in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of California.
Many unique species of plants and animals are endemic to the Channel Islands, including fauna such as the Channel Islands spotted skunk, ashy storm-petrel, and flora including a unique subspecies of Torrey pine.
John Torrey
American botanist, chemist, and physician.
P. torreyana an endangered species from southern California, is also named after the botanist.
Torrey Pines High School
High school in the North County Coastal area of San Diego, California.
The school is named after the Torrey pine tree that grows in the area.
California coastal sage and chaparral
Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub ecoregion located in southwestern California (United States) and northwestern Baja California (Mexico).
Another endemic tree is the rare Torrey pine (Pinus torreyana), which is only native to the coastal bluffs in Torrey Pines State Reserve near San Diego, and off the coast on Santa Rosa Island.
Torrey Pines Golf Course
36-hole municipal golf facility on the west coast of the United States, owned by the city of San Diego, California.
The course is named for the Torrey Pine, a rare tree that grows in the wild only along this local stretch of the coastline in San Diego County and on Santa Rosa Island.
San Diego
Major city in the U.S. state of California on the coast of the Pacific Ocean and immediately adjacent to the Mexican border.
Torrey Pines State Reserve and a coastal strip continuing to the north constitute one of only two locations where the rare species of Torrey Pine, Pinus torreyana, is found.